Word: italiano
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...Quartette Italiano is novel in several respects-first of all because it is made up of Italians, and it has been a generation or more since an Italian quartet has won the general verdict "great." It also breaks with custom by including a girl: pretty Second Violinist Elisa Pegreffi. More astonishing still to the audiences who packed their 34 concerts in U.S. and Canadian cities this fall, the four musicians play without scores...
Last week the Quartetto Italiano wound up a sensational first tour of the U.S. with a Manhattan recital that made some quartet history itself. Acknowledging their audience with businesslike bows, the four young (average age 29) musicians stroked into one of their countrymen's compositions for a starter. Unhampered by scores, they seemed to play Boccherini's Quartet in D., Op. 6 with an air of almost impudent informality, sometimes glancing boldly around the audience as they played. For those used to staidness from string quartets, the atmosphere had something of the wild freedom of coasting downhill...
...years in office, and a deputy testified that a fellow deputy had delivered to the sheriff's wife $36,000 in payoff money from gamblers. Over on the west coast, Tampa's Sheriff Hugh Culbreath was apparently in business with the top underworld boss, "Big Red" Italiano, let his brother run a book right in his office. An accountant for the racketeers in the Cuban bolita (a version of numbers in which small numbered balls are shaken up in a burlap bag) told the committee that one weekly expense item meant money for the sheriff, scornfully designated...
...Blandino was clapped into a Turin jail by Italian partisans, released after a year. He went to Switzerland and this year returned to Italy. He re-established contacts with ex-servicemen and chaplains of Mussolini's Republican Army and with the neo-Fascist Movimento Italiano Femminile (Italian Women's Movement), to whom he propounded his idea: revive the Mercedarian tradition for liberation of Italy's 20 war criminals convicted by Allied tribunals, and 1,600 sentenced by Italian courts. Embittered ex-servicemen, theological students, relatives of prisoners gave him support-offers of money and of substitution...
Luclan C. Parlato, Adams House; Vice-pres. Debate Council; Freshman Union Committee; Publicity Director, Catholic Club; Secretary, Circolo Italiano; Harvard Glee Club; WHRV...